He was born to wizard parents sometime before 1956 somewhere in the British Isles. Despite his magical parentage, Filch was a Squib, meaning he could not perform magic.
One example of the four levels of wizards can be seen after the Battle of Hogwarts, near the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, in which there are two shots showing a Pure-blood (Ron Weasley) a Half-blood (Rubeus Hagrid), a Muggle-born (Hermione Granger), and a Squib (Argus Filch) all at once.
Argus Filch is a Squib, a child of wizard parents who has the inability to use magic. Harry discovers this in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when he spies Filch's "Kwikspell" letter, although he does not understand what that means until Filch says in front of him and Ron, "He knows I'm...
The Harry Potter movies seem to have started this idea, since in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Filch called McGonagall "ma'am," and some audiences thought he had said "mom." Of course, there has never been any indication that these two were related.
Mrs. Norris' looming presence in the Harry Potter series is far too magical for her to be an ordinary cat, and there's enough evidence to support a theory that she's a Maledictus like Nagini. Filch's nosy cat appears all throughout the book series and occasionally in the films.
Filch was kept working at Hogwarts in his capacity of caretaker. It is unknown what was made of Filch, or even if he was mistreated by the Carrows simply for being a Squib.
Harry describes Umbridge to Sirius Black, saying that she's vile enough to be a Death Eater, despite not being one. Umbridge is also depicted to be a prejudiced person, despising half-breeds and Muggle-born witches and wizards to the point of firing Hagrid due to his half-giant birth status.
Those who could not prove that they had magical heritage — in other words, any Muggle-born and potentially some half-bloods — were sentenced to Azkaban for having "stolen" magic. Some, however, were apparently released after being stripped of their wands and their jobs, and ended up homeless.
Although Muggle-borns are descended from Squibs, there is not a single known case of a Squib having children. Squibs may be related to, or the same as, the Underbeings described in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass) (c. 1982 – August 2019) was a British pure-blood witch and a member of the Greengrass family, one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight.
McGonagall was born a half-blood witch as her father was a Muggle and her mother a witch. McGonagall began her Hogwarts education at the age of eleven and was sorted into Gryffindor after being the longest ever Hatstall between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
Draco Lucius Malfoy (b. 5 June 1980) was a British pure-blood wizard and the only son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy (née Black). The son of a Death Eater, Draco was raised to strongly believe in the importance of blood purity. He looked down on half-bloods and Muggle-borns.
Norris is his wife and since he is a squib, he actually transfigured her into a cat without knowing how to retrieve the curse. So, is Mrs. Norris the wife of Argus Filch?
Squibs would not be able to attend Hogwarts as students. They are often doomed to a rather sad kind of half-life (yes, you should be feeling sorry for Filch), as their parentage often means that they will be exposed to, if not immersed in, the wizarding community, but can never truly join it.
Nagini (d. 2 May 1998) was a Maledictus cursed to transform into a snake. Originating possibly in Indonesia, by 1927 she was a performer at the Circus Arcanus where she met Credence Barebone (Aurelius Dumbledore) and had a romantic relationship with him.
↑ Severus died in 1998 without marrying nor having children, and his parents' fates are unknown. Aside from that, it's likely that his parents never had any other son or daughter as it's never mentioned if Severus had a brother or a sister.
Arabella Helena Snape, is the daughter of Muggle-Born, Helena Constantina, and Half-Blood, Severus Snape. Her second name, coming from her mother, Arabella has traits and looks, similar to her parents.
PHOTO: MATTHEW MURPHY On Broadway, Iowa theatre arts alumna Karen Woditsch plays Hogwarts Professor Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. “She's a warrior for her students and against darkness,” says Woditsch about the character.
As Dolores Umbridge was a sadist who enjoyed torturing students, Filch could relate to this. Also, as Umbridge granted Filch permission to torture misbehaving students, whereas Dumbledore would never even think of such things, he had loyalty to her. He is the only person who liked her at the school.
Other than Pansy Parkinson with absolute zero room-reading skills and Professor McGonagall sending all the Slytherins to the dungeons, from what I understand McGonagall literally had them locked up in the dungeons cells than give them a choice whenever to fight against Voldemort or remain in the common room, because ...
